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Korakys's avatar

Worth noting that this only applies to the median person. Plenty of people still struggling with the first few levels, even today.

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Matt Cardin's avatar

I somehow missed this when you first published it in 2012. The idea of a Maslovian hierarchy of innovation strikes me as quite savvy, and in fact rather brilliant. Makes great sense. And it's certainly well illustrated by the transitional confluence of the 1969 moon landing and the advent of the Woodstock era that Thiel noted. Your mapping of innovation onto Maslow's pyramid of needs feels like it provides a new angle of illumination on the progress/decadence dynamic. Thank you for resharing it.

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